Where Are You in the Movie?
— if The Wizard of Oz spanned my lifetime, then Dorothy just met the Tin Man (via) #
Danny Sullivan's preview of the Wolfram Alpha search engine
— best explanation of what it does, and doesn't do, along with a good roundup of links #
Adblock Plus on their war with NoScript
— you can read NoScript's deceptive rebuttal; cheating ad blockers only makes users angry (via) #
Paper Moon, monochrome Unity-based platformer inspired by pop-up books
— the developers were featured in this week's great WSJ article on new business models for gaming #
High-res NASA moon landing photos restored by private fans in an abandoned McDonald's
— amazing story about obsolete media preservation; start with the AP report and LA Times article, and work your way back (via) #
Jonathan Coulton's "First of May" performed in sign language
— in case you need to know how to say "in flagrante delicto" in ASL (via) #
Jack Schulze's incredible 3D horizonless map of Manhattan
— currently running as a huge gatefold in Wired UK, prints are available with both directions (via) #
Pew study says churchgoers more likely to support torture
— J-Walk notes that the threat of torture is a fundamental concept of hell #
Chris Messina on Comixology and the future of connected commerce
— his local comic shop's iPhone integration lets you build a pull list waiting for you in the store #
79 versions of Popcorn, remixed into a single song
— a hot mess, algorithmically beat-matched into a 12-minute collage with the Echo Nest remix API #
Lessig adds more details about the Warner Music DMCA request against him
— oddly, none of the music in his presentation appears to belong to Warner #
Twitter launches integrated search for everyone
— also: Twitter's admin section was hacked yesterday and screenshots were leaked; always interesting to see internal tools #
Recreating fear of heights in augmented reality
— reminds me of this room-sized 3D demo, where you can see the subject's reflexes kick in #
Handmade grade-school book about the Apple //c from 1985
— "The most nesasary step to useing the computer is learning to program." (via) #
Rick Astley writes about Moot, 4chan, and the Rickrolling meme
— "I find it bonkers, by the way!" (via) #
Interview with Dutch director of "What's In The Box?", Half-Life inspired short film
— he made the video himself for about $150; click the icon on the bottom-right for subtitles #
Bandcamp easter egg turns traffic stats into Defender playfield
— a closer view of the gameplay towards the end of their screencast #
Flickr's Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson working on social gaming startup
— in other Flickr news, George Oates joined the Internet Archive and Rev. Dan Catt's off to the UK #
Rod Stewart joins Jeff Beck on stage for first time in 25 years
— soundboard recordings of "People Get Ready" and "I Ain't Superstitious" #
Adventure 2600 Reboot
— the classic Atari game remade in 16-bit graphics with new sounds; interview with the creator #
Motion Theory's Google Chrome ad
— gorgeous animated evolution of browser UIs, plus greeked versions of popular Google sites #
EveryBlock releases free iPhone app
— look up health code violations at dinner and which street you're likely to get mugged on the way home #
Dreamhost's history of WebRing
— sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000 #
The White House joins Flickr
— incredible detail in the high-res versions, you can almost read his notes #
Google adds public data visualizations to search results
— announced right before the Wolfram Alpha demo (via) #
Warner Music files DMCA request against Larry Lessig presentation
— still unclear which one, but I'm not sure it matters; he's the king of fair use #
Farbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia
— best resignation ever, from the creator of ROM CHECK FAIL, who's gone full indie #
Google's What's Popular
— algorithm surfaces trending links culled from YouTube and Google Reader (via) #
Nizmlab, surfacing the best of YouTube and Vimeo
— fed up with YouTube's most popular, they built an elegant community site (via) #
Type Nesting, photos of birds nesting in storefront signage
— they seem to prefer capital Rs and As (via) #
How 4chan defeated reCAPTCHA to win the Time 100 Poll
— Paul Lamere breaks down the brute force hack, optimized to crank out 200 votes per minute #
Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities
— in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites #
Jeff Jarvis on journalism's original reporting vs. redundancy
— "Do what you do best and link to the rest." #
Face mining demo using vintage Star Trek episodes
— white polygons in the videos represent faces that were detected but unmatched #
Infographic timeline of Evel Knievel's jumps
— up until his last failed jump, which inspired Happy Days to jump the shark #
Windosill, Vectorpark's new exploration game for Mac/PC
— holy cow, this is amazing; if you're a fan of Vectorpark, try and buy this immediately (via) #
NYT on Internet startups throttling or blocking global users
— YouTube and Facebook may lower video quality for certain countries #
4chan creator handily wins the TIME 100 poll
— interesting spin on their broken poll; "Doubting the results is kind of the point." (via) #
Newsmap 2.0
— back with a new design, including real-time search, permalinks, and news photos (via) #